Word: bardes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press ($3). Leslie Hotson is the Sherlock Holmes of Elizabethan scholars who first uncovered the mystery of Marlowe's death (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In this book he reviews the career, family background and political connections of Thomas Russell, the overseer of Shakespeare's will, identifies the bard tenuously with groups of Catholic conspirators, but fails to catch him in any political activity. Result: a series of good thumbnail biographies of forgotten Elizabethans, throwing more light upon the turbulent times than on the tranquil poet...
Pundit Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis), whose first husband was Budapester Josef Bard, wrote last week of the Austrian situation: "Yesterday it looked as though the struggle was over, and the new peace dictated. Today it is still an armistice. Tomorrow...
...Baconians. For years scholars have known only seven authentic specimens of his signature, three of them in his will. Last fortnight in Salt Lake City, Professor Benjamin Roland Lewis displayed a small piece of paper cut or torn from an old document, with a common contemporary spelling of the bard's name-William Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper in the same period. Photographic enlargements permitted minute comparisons with known Shakespearian signatures. Ultraviolet photographs established...
There once was a Harvard scholar who knew quite a little about a certain Bard of Avon. The pedagogue called this bard Will Shakspere, there by causing some confusion among the ranks of the Harvard actuaries...
...bard o'Bangwhor...